International Affairs Team

Without a doubt, Hyang Rim Lee, a fourth-year Business Administration student, has a heart of gold. Having a deep desire to explore her love of teaching, Hyang Rim formed a volunteer organization, called Mr. Choukriya with her boyfriend, Sang Deok Lee (School of Design and Human Engineering). “In order to live a meaningful life, one must help others and I aspire to help youth meet their educational needs,” says Hyang Rim. Mr. Choukriya is a non-profit organization that is specifically designed to provide educational support for the children of developing countries where proper schooling infrastructure and educators are highly needed. Elementary students of the Philippines, watching Mathematics video lectures, provided by Mr. Choukriya. Currently, with the help of OLPC (One Laptop per Child), this team has contributed 270 Mathematics video lectures for the elementary students of the Philippines and Mongolia. The mission of this organization is to offer more and more online video lectures in both Mathematics and Science to the underprivieged children by December 2014. “As a full-time student, producing online video lectures at my own expense has not been easy, but my heart is filled with pride, knowing that my little help will provide education to the underprivileged children,” says Hyang Rim.

UNIST and the Mongolian University of Science and Technology (MUST) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), pledging mutual support for one another in the pursuit of excellence in education. The MoU was signed by Moo Je Cho, President of UNIST and Batchuluun Dorjpalam, Vice-President (Economic Development) of MUST on August 25. Describing the importance of this MoU, Jae Sung Lee (Vice President for Academic Affairs) stated that both UNIST and MUST will closely collaborate in areas of education, training, collaborative research projects, and student exchange programs. UNIST, as a centre of technological and scientific excellence has been recruiting a variety of highly talented students from overseas. This agreement builds on UNIST’s existing relationship with MUST and a total of fourteen talented Mongolian students have been admitted to UNIST. Moreover, among these students, Khoszul Purevnamjil graduated at the top of her class with a B.A. degree in Business Administration.